What’s the best URL structure for WIP Questions? #wip

I think it would be good to add more descriptive slugs. Both for SEO purposes, but also to give people a better indication of what the question is about when shared on platforms where there's no preview.

Using just the slug without an ID is the most descriptive* and probably most SEO-friendly. The downside is that we need save the slug and any historical ones in order to retrieve the related question. In Rails this is pretty straightforward though using the FriendlyId gem.

(* the ID does however suggest how old the question is. A lower ID means an older question. I'm not sure if that's an advantage or disadvantage. Probably doesn't matter that much. )

It will happen because there is no search yet so it depends when you will implement it. But again nobody searches because its harder than directly asking (personal opinion because that's what I do all the time on StackOverflow 😂)

For it not to happen you will need a similar questions functionality like StackOverflow